Based on over 5 years of research, the book draws from BlueJacket’s own memories, long-buried law enforcement and trial records, prison archives, news accounts, as well as interviews with others such as photographer Larry Clark and veteran reporters of Tulsa's mid-century crime beat.īorn in 1930, BlueJacket came of age as a Native American in white Oklahoma-passing through teenage rumbles, scheming pool halls, and Midwest safecracker crews. It’s the kind of narrative history we need more of, especially centering marginalized voices, especially today.”īobby BlueJacket is the extraordinary true story of a career thief who first gained notoriety as a convicted teenaged killer. “Each time I picked up Bobby BlueJacket, I got lost in its pages, even at the points where I was utterly horrified by what I read… I highly recommend this book for anyone and everyone, not only because it is fascinating, well-written, and incredibly well-researched, but because it provides layer upon layer of indispensable information told primarily through a first-person account of lived experiences. “ the 9 most anticipated true crime books of 2018.” “An amazing cultural history as much as it is a story of Bobby BlueJacket.” As such, Daley has created an engrossing and unique story that will compel your attention from beginning to end.” “ rarity in literature-a history told by the defeated, but still unvanquished. “It’s a compelling read, full of violence and heart.” Ron Padgett, Bean Spasms and Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers The story is as good as the sound of his beautiful name.” “This book is not only a fascinating and richly detailed biography of a wily child of the Great Depression who at an early age drifted into a life of serious crime and serious punishment, it is also an intimate portrait of his complex emotional and intellectual life. Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence and Elvissey “Insightful, angry, straightforward, reminiscent of the subterranean classic You Can’t Win by Jack Black-Daley’s BlueJacket pulls no punches describing a long life as fascinating as it is heartbreaking in its details.”
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